Introduction: Early African American print culture / Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein -- The print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the cultural significance of the book / Joseph Rezek -- The unfortunates: what the life spans of early Black books tell us about book history / Joanna Brooks -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the circuits of abolitionist poetry / Meredith L. McGill -- Early African American print culture and the American West / Eric Gardner -- Apprehending early African American literary history / Jeannine Marie DeLombard -- Black voices, white print: racial practice, print publicity, and order in the early American republic / Corey Capers -- Slavery, imprinted: the life and narrative of William Grimes / Susanna Ashton -- Bottles of ink and reams of paper: clotel, racialization, and the material culture of print / Jonathan Senchyne -- Notes from the state of Saint Domingue: the practice of citation in Clotel / Lara Langer Cohen -- The canon in front of them: African American deployments of "The charge of the light brigade" / Daniel Hack -- Another long bridge: reproduction and reversion in Hagar's daughter / Holly Jackson -- "Photographs to answer our purposes": representations of the Liberian landscape in colonization print culture / Dalila Scruggs -- Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in early African American print culture / Susan Gillman -- The lyric public of Les Cenelles / Lloyd Pratt -- Imagining a state of fellow citizens: early African American politics of publicity in the Black state conventions / Derrick R. Spires -- "Keep it before the people": the pictorialization of American abolitionism / Radiclani Clytus -- John Marrant blows the French horn: print, performance, and the making of publics in early African American literature / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-404) and index.

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